Multiple-magazine typographic machine.



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MULTIPLE MAGAZINE TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

DAVID PETRI-PALMEDO, OF BRIDGEPORT, AND EDWARD F. GODDARD, OF STBATFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO ELECTRIC COMPOSITOR COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,

N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MULTIPLE-MAGAZINE TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINE.

Application filed October 16,

To all 1074 am. it may concern.

Be it known that we, DAVID PETRI-PAL- MEDO and EDWARD F. GODDARD, citizens of the United States, and residents/respectively, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. and Stratford, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Multiple-Magazine Typographic Machines, of which the and exact description.

The growing demand for greater versatility in matrix or type setting .machines has led to the construction of machines by which an increased numbeiwof characters are placed at the disposal of the operator. For practical purposes, such as keeping the keyboard small and for compactly disposing the required storage room, this increased number of characters is divided into groups,generally but not necessarily according to fonts,-and each group is stored in one of several independently removable magazine sections, or magazines, as they are commonly called. Such machines likewise contain means through which a single keyboard may cause matrices to be released at will from any magazine and delivered to the assembling mechanism. Likewise such machines contain means through which the matrices. after they have been used, may be distributed back into the proper channels of the particular magazines in which they belong. Such machines are known in the art as multiple magazine machines. Experience has shown that the magazines used in machines of this character must be arranged one behind another, and cannot contain more than about 120 channels, which must be separated from one another by very thin partitions. Such a magazine may be called a normal magazine. or a magazine of normal width. If the magazines are made of abnorma L,w-idt h.- .eit@r because they have contained too many channels, or because the channels are separated by abnormally thick partitions, or if the magazines are arranged side by side, the operator cannot operate the keys for assemblage purposes at his maximum rate without frequent transpositions of the matrices. This is because it takes so much longer for a matrix released from a remote channel to reach the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15. 1916. 1913. Serial No. 795,398.

assemblage point, than it does for a matrix released from a nearby channel. In fact, the operator of a machine which employsabnormally wide magazines or two normal magazines placed side by side, is obliged to wait a perceptible time after he'has depressed a key associated with a remote channel, before he can depress a key which is associated with a nearby channel. This delay must be long enough for the matrix released from the remote channel to pass the nearby channel; and this time exceeds the normal interval between the successive depression of keys by an operator having an evenly fair rate of speed. Therefore anyone seeking to introduce into a machine of this character any new mechanism for producing any specific result, must solvethe problem of how he can do this in. a machine having magazines of normal width arranged one behind another.

The present invention relates to multiple magazine machines having the above describedcharacteristics. It is obvious that in multiple magazine typographic machines, the distribution of the matrices involves both magazine segre gation,that is, the segregation of the matrices in accordance with the magazines in which they belong, and channel segregation,-that is the segregation of the matrices according to the particular magazine channels in which they belong.

In the multiple magazine machines having magazines of normal width arranged one behind another which are shown in prior patents, three classes of distributing mechanism have been disclosed. One class may be called semiautomatic. It includes an automatic channel distributer which segregates the matrices according to the magazine channels in which they belong. But in order to provide for the delivery of matrices into. any of the several magazines it is necessary for the operator to effect the relative movement of the distributer and the magazines to bring the proper magazine into operative relation with the distributer, or to move some intermediate guiding member by which the segregated matrices would be guided into the proper magazine.

The other two classes of distributors are automatic. In one class-(and this, we believe, is the only class which has attained any practical success) there is a magazine distributer by which each matrix is tested and delivered to the proper one of several channel distributers,there being as many of these channel distributers as there are magazines. Each of these channel distributers subsequently tests the matrix delivered to it, and, as a result, effects the delivery of the matrix to the proper channel of the magazine with which it is associated.

In the other class of automatic distributers the matrix is first delivered to and tested by a channel distributer, by which it is guided and delivered to intermediate holder, which corresponds with the 'determined magazine channel; and while in this holder the matrix is next presented to and tested a magazine distributer by which itpis guided and delivered to the previously selected channel of the magazine in which it belongs.

In the machine shown in the drawing' and hereinafter described, embodying the present invention, a long step in advance has been taken; because a single distributor only is employed; and the delivery of any matrix into the proper channel of the magazine in which it belongs is automatically effected as the result of one testing of said matrix by the selecting. mechanism of that single distributer.

We believe therefore that the principal invention is generic in character ;Which principal invention, together with the novel parts and combination of parts which constitute the preferred specific embodiment, thereof, or which contribute to its' practical efficiency, are definitely pointed out in the appended claims, and are shown in the accompanying drawings, and are hereinafter described with suiiicient detail and clearness to enable others skilled in this art to understand and make and use the same. i

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of so much of a line casting machine as involves the present invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the distributing mechanism. Fig. 3 is a partly sectioned front elevation of a fragmentary part of the machine,that is to say, it shows the lower ends of some of the right hand character distributing channels; it shows the right hand end of the magazine distributing mechanism; and the upper right hand end of some magazine channels, and also the upper right hand end of the swinging frame by which the magazines and magazine distributing mechanism are supported. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section of the mechanism shown in Fig. 3, the section being in the plane indicated by line AB, on said Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a partly sectioned view from the left end of Fig. 2, of the trains of mechanism by which to operate the gates of the ma azine segregating part of the distributor. ig. 6 is a'rear elevation of the left end of the gate actuating mechanismshown in Figs. 2 and 5. Fig. 7 is side elevation, partly sectioned, of the upper part of the power driven mechanism for selectively operating the gates of the channel segregating part of the distributer. Fig. 8 is a sectional plan view in the plane of line CD on Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a front elevation, partly sectioned, of the right hand end of the swinging frame by which the magazines are sup )orte-d, and some associated mechanism; l ig. 10 is a right end view of the same parts. Fig. 11 is a sectional end view of the swinging magazine-carrying frame and of the keyboard mechanism by whichthe escapements of the magazines are operated. Fig. 12 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the set of mechanism through which by the action of a matrix thereon, the actuation of the associated clutch may be controlled.

The machine as shown is organized to carry four magazines 10, each containing a plurality of matrix-holding channels 11; but obviously it could be organized to carry any desired number of magazines within reasonable limits. These magazines are remov'ably supported in a swinging frame 20 which is suspended at its upper end on a transverse axis from the ears 71 which are on the front side of a fixed main frame member 70,-said axis being formed by the two alined supporting pins 72. These magazines are arranged one behind the other in nearly parallel relations. (They converge slightly toward their upper ends). Below this swinging frame are the ordinary assembling channels 73 and below them the ordinary gatherer belt 74. The matrices M, when released from the magazine channels, will fall through said assembling channels onto the gatherer belt 74, which will carry and deliver the matrices to suitable mechanism by which they are assembled in rows for use. By swinging of the magazine supporting frame 20 forward or backward, the lower delivery end of any magazine may be brought over these assembling channels 73. The escapements for the various channels in each magazine are mounted on the magazine near the lower end thereof; and, whatever may be the specific form of such escapements, they will each be provided with an operating lever 12. When any magazine is in the assembling position, its escapement operating levers will be in operative relation to suitable keyboard operated mechanism. As shown, they will severally lie over the upturned end of a lever 13. which, in turn, rests on the upper end of a vertically movable reed 14, whose lower end is engaged by its operating key 15. When any key is actuated the result will be the operation, through the described mechanism, of that escapement which is in operative relation to the correspending lever l8,=that is to say, the corresponding escape'ment of the magazine which is in the assembling position.

The distributer is generically like the distributer which in several s ecific forms is shown in Letters Patent 0. 800,970, and N 0. 921,065. But there is this very essential difference, viz., that as shown in said prior patents, the repeatedly bifurcated distributer channels and their groups of gates are all in the vertical plane which extends transversely across the machine; whereas the dis tributer which is herein shown and described consists of two parts, viz., an upper part 30- which is supported on the fixed frame member 70, and which may be substantially like the distributer of said prior patents, and a lower part 40 which includes a large number of repeatedly bifurcated channels and gates, each set of which lies in a vertical plane which is at right angles to the plane in which the bifurcated channels of the upper part lie. The upper or fixed part of the distributer effects the segregation of the matrices according to the magazine channels; and at its lower end it is composed of as many approximately vertical channels as there are channels in each magazine. These channels lie side by side crosswise of the machine; and each is in the same vertical plane, which extends forward and backward, as is the corresponding channel 11 in each of the magazines. This upper part of the distributer has at its upper end a single channel or matrix receiving throat 32. At a suitable distance down, this channel is bifurcated by a partition 33, thereby forming two branches. Still farther down, each of these branches is bifurcated by an approximately vertical but slightly diverging partition 3+, whereby four slightly diverging channels are formed. This bifurcation of channels is repeated until at the lower end of the fixed part of the distributer there are as many channels 31 arranged side by side across the machine as there are matrix channels in each magazine. At the upper end of each partition a gate 2 is hinged, so that, by moving said gate to the right or left, any channel may be placed in open communication with either of its two branches below the gate. These gates are associated in rows or groups, and each row is associated with an operating device which may be moved to right or left, and which, when so moved, will correspondingly move all of the gates in the associated row. There are seven rows of gates in this fixed part of the distributer. the first row comprising one gate: the next row includes two gates; the next row four gates, and so on. Each gate is fixed to a rock shaft 3 which is mounted in and passes through the supporting frame member 70, and on its rear end each rock shaft is provided with an operating arm 4. The two operating arms of the second row of gates are connected with a horizontal bar 5 which is movable endwise from right to left. The operating arms of the gates in each of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth rows enter notches in the lower are shaped edges of the associated swinging frames 6. The operating arms of the gates in the seventh row enter notches in the edge of a horizontal bar 7 which is movable endwise from right to left. The upper part of the distributer, as above described, contains nothing which is new. In fact, it is substantially like the distributers shown in the prior patents mentioned, and for that reason the above detailed description is perhaps unnecessary.

The lower part of the distributer is preferably mounted, as shown, in the upper end of the swinging frame 20, and therefore is movable with the swinging frame. At its upper end this lower distributer has as many channels 41 as there are channels 31 in the lower end of the fixed distributer. The upper receiving ends of the channels of the lower part of the distributer are severally .and lower movable channels, so that, however much the frame is swung, the described relation of the adjacent ends of these channels is not materially changed. Therefore any matrix which is delivered into any of the lower fixed channels 31 will fall directly into the corresponding upper end of the corresponding movable channel 41. These movable channels are. at a short distance below their upper ends. bifurcated by a transversely extended vertical wall 42 Which crosses them all, thereby forming branch channels on each side of (i. c. in front and behind) said partition. Still lower down each of these branch channels is bifurcated by a substantially vertical wall 43 which extends across the machine and through all of the branch channels. At the top of each of the walls 42, 43. a transversely extended rock shaft is mounted. said shaft being indicated by 44. Secured to each rock shaft are as many gates 2 as there are channels in each magazine. The twd lower rock shafts 14 are connected together so that they may be rocked in unison by means of arms 46 connected thereto, and a link 47 connecting said arms. By rocking these rock shafts, the gates 2 which they carry may be so moved as to place any channel in communication with either of the two branches thereof on opposite sides of the gate. The lower part of the distributer differs from the upper part of the distributer in that the branch channels thereof, formed by the partitions and gates diverge both forward and backward from the receiving upper ends of the movable distributer channels. Each set of the so subdivided channels lies in a vertical plane which extends forward and backward and is at right angles to the plane in which are the bifurcated channels of the upper part of the (listributer. Each set of said channels has in its lower end four channels which lie respectively over corresponding channels 11 in the four magazines 10. That is to say, all of the channels 41 in the front row of the lower distributer channels are over corresponding channels 11. in the front magazine- All of the channels 41 in the next row of lower distributer channels are over the corresponding channels 11 in the second magazine 12.. and so on.

From the foregoing, it is clear that by selectively rocking in the proper direction the correct combinations of rows of gates '2 and 2, unobstructedpassageways may be opened up from the receiving throat 32 of the upper part of the distributer to any channel 11 of any magazine; and through the passageway so opened up a matrix M may fall into its proper magazine channel. The matrices M adapted for use with said distributer are generically like those shown and described by. the prior patents mentioned. That is to say. the middle parts of all matrices are made of the same thickness; and in this middle part there are formed as many pairs of holes and associated contact surfaces m as there are rows of gates 2. 2 In the present case there are nine rows of gates, and therefore each matrix has nine pairs of contact surfaces and holes.-each so-called pair consisting of a contact surface and a hole by the side of said surface. Each of these pairs controls the actuation of an associated row of gates.the two upper pairs being preferably those which control the gates of the lower part of the distributer. To do this a like number of pairs of endwise movable feeler rods, ()0 are mounted in such relative positions as correspond with the positions of the pairs of contact surfaces and holes on the matrices, so that when any matrix is properly presented to these feeler rods. the adjacent ends of each pair of feeler rods will be alined with the corresponding pair of contact surfaces and holes on the matrix.

For removing the matrices from the line one by one and severally forcing them against these pairs of feeler rods. the same mechanism may be employed as that which is fully shown and described in the prior Patent No. 921,065. It is therefore sufficient for the present purpose to say that by appropriate mechanism the matrices are transferred one by one from a distributing rail into a recess in a transversely movable cage 80, and that this cage is then moved to the right so as to force the matrices therein against the ends of the feeler rods 60. Each contact surface on the matrices will engage one feeler rod and will move it to the right (unless it is already in the required position) so that one feeler rod of each of the nine pairs will be brought into the said position to the right. The other feeler rods of the several pairs will be opposite holes in the matrices. This not only insures that said feeler rods will not be moved to the right, but it permits them to move to the left, which they will do by reason of the double train of transmitting mechanism shown.

Each pair of feeler rods is associated with a row of gates, and the movement of any feeler rod may be transmitted to a ate operating device by any suitable mechanism, as for example, such as is shown in either of the prior patents mentioned. But the repeated pressure of the contact surfaces on the matrices with the ends of the feeler rods will sooner or later wear away said surfaces. Therefore the endwise movement of a feeler rod, in the mechanism shown in the drawing, is required to merely actuate certain clutch controlling mechanism so as to cause a power driven shaft to move the associated gate operator in the required direction.

To bring this about there is associated with each pair of feeler rods a peculiar clutch; and certain intermediate mechanism, which latter mechanism is substantially like that shown in the prior Patent No. 921,065. The right ends of the two feeler rods of each pair engage with the vertical arms of two bell crank levers 61. At a suitable distance below is a rock shaft Q2 which is mounted in the frame member and extends through it. To the front end-of this shaft there is fixed a rocker 63 having arms which extend nearly horizontally on both sides of the axis of the shaft. Two guided vertically movable rods (34- rest respectively upon opposite arms of this rocker and engage at their upper ends respectively with the horizontal arms of the bell crank levers. Therefore when one feeler rod of a pair is moved to the right it will rock the bell crank with which it engages. This bell crank will, through the associated rod, push down on one arm of the rocker. The other'arm thereof will be moved up, and this, through the described mechanism. will move the other feeler rod of the pair to the left. as before described.

()n the rear end of each rock shaft an operating arm (35 is secured, and each of these operating arms is connected by a link 66 with a lever arm 67 which is fixed to a rock shaft 68 mounted in the frame member adjacent to the associated clutch.

Mounted in suitable hearings on the rear side of the frame member is a vertical shaft 90 which is constantly driven, as, for example, through the beveled gear 91 on its upper end. Associated with each of the gate operators 5. 0. 7. is mechanism for motor it to the right or left: and a clutch by which this mechanism may be opel'atively connected with said shaft. These clutch mechanisms and the mechanisms intermediate of the shaft and the gate operators are. or may be alike. and therefore a description of one onlv is necessary.

A sleeve 92 is loosely mounted on the shaft, and it carries at its lower end a series of teeth 93 for engagement with corresponding teeth on a disk 94 fixed to the shaft. This sleeve likewise carries a cam 95 which is adapted to engage with and operate a )eculiar lever 100 which is pivoted to a xt e. and has an arm 101 which enters a notch 7 in the associated gate operator. (See Fig. 8.) This peculiar lever. when complete, is a loop which surrounds the cam. It is made of two substantially semi-circular pieces 102 which are pinned together at their ends. The making of this loop-shaped lever in two pieces is for convenience 111 assembling the parts. ()n this loop shaped lever are mounted two friction rollers 103 placed 180 degrees apart with respect to the axis of the shaft, and these are for engagement by the single hump 96 on the associated cam 95. It is obvious that for each full revolution of the cam. this lever will be rocked. first in one direction, and then in the other back to its original position; and that for each half revolution it will be iocked from one extreme position o er to the other extreme position. thereby causing a corresponding movement of a gate operator and the associated row of gates.

Each sleeve 92 has in its surface a cam faced groove 97 which extends a little more than half way around it. This groove is provided for engagement with one or the other of two alined diametrically opposed pins 100. 107. These pins slide endwise in suitable guideways 75: and means are provided for moving them reciprocally.-that is to say. for moving one out of the cam groove as the other is moved into said groove. To effect this reciprocal movement of the pins the rock shaft 08 is provided with two upwardly extended arms 09 in addition to the downwardly extended arm 67 before referred to. One of the upwardly extended arms enters a notch 100 in one of the pins. The other goes into a notch 105K in a parallel sliding rod 108. which. at its opposite end, carries an arm 109 which goes into a notch 107 in the other pin 107.

'hen any matrix is forced against the feeler rods and selectively operates the required combination thereof. each rod which is moved to the right will cause. through the described mechanism. a corresponding movement of the associated row of gates. That is to say, it will, through the described mechanism, cause the correspondin rock shaft 68 to be rocked in one direction or the other. as the case may be. In Whichever direction it rocks. the described reciprocal movement of the pins 106, 107, will take place. That is to say. the pin which is inthe end of the cam faced groove 97 of the associated clutch sleeve 92 will be withdrawn. and thereupon the sleeve actuated by a spring 99 will move down to cause the engagement of the clutch teeth on the sleeve and disk respectively, and thereupon the cam sleeve will begin to turn. As one pin was withdrawn. the other pin was moved into the wide end of the cam faced groove 97, where it did not interfere with the downward endwise movement of said sleeve. As the sleev turns. however, the cam surface which forms the upper wall of said groove engages this pin, and thereby the sleeve is moved up at a rate such that when the sleeve has turned through an arc of 180 degrees, said sleeve will have been raised so as to disengage the clutch teeth. At this instant also the end of the cam groove engages the pin, and thereby the further turning of the cam sleeve is positively stopped. While the cam sleeve has turned through one-half a revolution the hump 96 of the cam by engaging one of the friction rollers 103 on the loopshaped lever has rocked the latter, and, through it. has also rocked the associated gate operator.

As above stated, each row of gates in the upper fixed part of the distributer is or may be associated with similar clutch and cam mechanism. and these will be selectively set in operation by the associated feeler rods and the intermediate mechanism which has been described.

The three rows of gates in the movable lower part of the distributor are selectively operated by similar mechanism at the, same time. That is to say, a single presentation of a matrix against the feeler rods causes the actuation of those associated with the upper part of the distributer as well as those associated with the lower part of the distributer. The train of mechanism from the associated feeler rods down to rock shafts 8 is substantially like the train of mechanism described in connection with the upper part of the distributor mechanism; and these rock shafts correspond in function, construction and adjunctive features with the similarly identified rock shafts before referred to. The reciprocally movable pins 100, 107 and associated parallel rod 108 are moved vertically, however. when these rock shafts are rocked, instead of horizontally. This is because the three rows of gates in the movable part of the (listributer are operable by a horizontal transversely extended shaft 110 which is mounted in snit able bearings, and is driven from the vertical shaft 90 by the intermeshing bevel gears. 99 and 112. Embracing this horizontal shaft and standing in vertical planes are two loop shaped rockers 100 which embrace two clutch sleeves 92, each of which is provided with' a cam 95), the clutch jaws 93, and the cam faced groove 97, which are like those previously described. Therefore when either of these sleeves is connected with the shaft the cam 95 thereon will turn through a half revolution, and will rock the corresponding loop shaped lever 100 in one direction or the other. One of these loop shaped levers is connected by means of a link 115 with an operating arm 116 fixed to the upper gate carrying shaft ll. The other loop shaped lever is connected by another link 11? with an operating arm 118 connected with one of the two lower shafts 44.

From the foregoing it Will appear that there will be selective operation of all of the rows of gates in one direction or the other tunless, perchance, some of them are already ill the required position), whenever a matrix is pressed against the feeler rods; and the result will be that a clear channel will be opened from the receiving throat 31 of the upper part of the distributer down to the discharge end of the lower part of the distributer. and that the lower end of this open passageway will be directly over the upper open receiving end of the corresponding channel 11 of the magazine 10 in which belongs the matrix which so selectively caused the operation of said gates.

lVe wish to say here that While the mounting of the magazines and the lower part of the distributer on a swinging f 'ame is a practical way, and the preferred way of preserving the operative relation of the assembler to the several magazines, and of enabling the operator to assemble from any magazine at will, and is a part of our invention as defined by some of the append ed claims, it is not the only Way of producing the said desired results; and it is not our intention that any of the appended claims shall be limited to said construction, except those claims in which the limitation is plainly expressed.

The specific construction shown of the movable lower part of the distributer contains several valuable novel features. Its channels, partitions and gates are contained in a housing made of two end plates 120 and a front plate 121 and rear plate 122, which front and rear plates diverge from their upper toward their lower ends. The front and rear plates. either or both of them, may be hinged at their lower ends, so that they are capable of being swung down to disclose the interior of this housing. The partitions 121 which divide this housing into as many transversely extended channels as there are channels in each magazine are thin metal plates, as shown in ig. 0, and they are of sucn shape that they will fit into vertical grooves 125 formed in the thrrr vertical walls 42, t3. Disks 4% are fixed on shafts 41 in the planes of the partitions 124.

The three rock shafts 44 which carry the gates are also of peculiar form. At their ends they are, of course, cylindrical to furnish the required bearings; but within the housing they are flattened. and below the center the sides slightly di erge and then converge to form the peculiar shaped lower edge shown in Fig. t. Each gate has a recess in its lower edge adapted to fit upon this peculiarly shaped shaft between two disks thereon; and from this recess upward the gate is split so as to permit the two lower arms thereof to spring apartsutliciently to be snapped over the peculiarly shaped shaft described. (See Fig. 1).

The magazines may be secured in the swinging frame in any suitable way, but a very satisfactory construction is that which is shown wherein each magazine has extending from right to left and on its rear side and near its lower edge a bar 16 hav ing in its lower edge a V-shaped groove 17, which groove is adapted to engage with the horizontal V-shaped upper edge of a supporting bar 21 which is secured to the side members of the swinging frame and extend ing from one to the other. The upper ends of the magazines go into recesses which are formed between the lower ends of the partitions 42, 43, referred to.

The swinging of the frame 20 to bring any magazine over the gatherer belt may be effected by any suitable mechanism. There is provided for the purpose in the machine shown. however. segment shaped racks 22 on the lower edges of the side members of the swinging frame, pinions 130 engaging therewith fixed to shaft 131, on which is a pinion 132. This latter is engaged by a segment rack 133 on the upper end of a lever 13% which is pivoted to the main frame member T0, and is provided with a latch 135 for engaging in any of the notches on the fixed index plate 136.

.The right side member of the swinging frame is of skeleton form which permits the magazines to be moved out of it by edgewise sliding movement to the right Button like latches 137 may he provided for engaging the right end v of the several magazines, to hold them immovable in the swinging frame.

Having described my invention. I claim:

1. In a typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of matrix magazines, a single distributer only adapted to separate the matrices in accordance with the magazine and the particular channel thereof in which they severally belong, which distribufor moving said guiding means so as 'to guide said matrix into the proper magazine.- channel of the particular magazine in which it belongs.

2. In a multiple magazine typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines of normal width arranged one behind another, key actuated matrix releasing mechanism capable of releasing matrices from either magazine at will, and distributing mechanism which is always in operative relation with all magazines and is capable of delivering matrices into any magazine regardless of whether matrices are being concurrently released from, one magazine or another, and means whereby a single presentation of any matrix to and a single testing of any matrix by said distributing mechanism will cause said matrix to be immediately delivered into the proper channel of the'magazine in which it belongs without interfering with the concurrent release of the matrices from the same or any other magazine.

In a typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines, a single distributer which has at its upper end a sin le matrix receiving throat, and below sai throat, repeatedly sub-divided diverging channels, movable guiding devices in said channel for directing a matrix during its downward travel from said receiving throat into either branch of any of the chan nels, and means adapted to be selectively operated by any matrix for simultaneously so moving the required guiding devices that they will guide said matrix into the particular channel of the particular magazine in which said matrix belongs.

4. In a typographic machine, the combination with a plurality of matrix magazines, a single distributer which includes a series of repeatedly subdivided diverging distributing channels which begin at their upper ends with a single matrix receiving throat and which terminate at their lower ends in as many channels as there are magazine channels in all the magazines, said terminal channels being located respectively over said magazine channels, gates in said channels, matrices which are differentiated from each other in as many different ways as there are magazine channels,-and mechanism adapted to be selectively operated by any matrix for simultaneously moving as many of said gates as may require movement .to guide said matrix into thepanticular magazine channel in whichzit belongs,

In a typographic machines containing keyboard operated matrix-releasii1g inechanism, the combination of -a plurality of" .matrix magazines of normal width which a1je arranged one behind another and are Jmo able as a umt to bring either magazine .intooperative relatlon to the matrix releasing mechanism, and a single distributer which. is always in operative relation to all of .said magazines regardless of the position ofsaid magazines .witli 'esp'eg; to said matrix releasing-mechanism f",

6. In a typographic-machine, the combination ofa 'plurality of matrix magazines,

matrix releasing mechanism which may: be in operative relation to any magazine butwith only one at a time, a single distributer which is in operative relation to all of said magazines, and means whereby the matrix releasing mechanism :and either magazine may be put into operativerelation with; one another without disturbing the operative relation between said distributer and all of said magazines.

7. In a typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of matrix magazines, a single distributer for all the magazines in constant operative relation to said magazines, assembling mechanism, and means for moving the magazines to bring any one of them into operative relation with said assembling mechanism, without disturbing the operative relation between any magazine and the distributer.

8. In a typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of matrix magazines, a single distributer for all of the magazines in constant operative relation to said magazines, escapement mechanisms carried by each magazine, an assembling mechanism,

-key-board controlled escapement operating devices, and means for moving the magazines to bring any one of them into operative relation with the keyboard controlled devices and the assembling mechanism, without disturbing the operative relation. between any magazine and the distributer.

9. In a typographic machine, the combination of a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines mounted thereon, each carrying its own escapements, distributing mechanism in constant operative relation to all of said magazines, a single set of keyboard controlled escapement-operating devices, and means for swinging said frame, and thereby bringing any magazine thereon into position such that its escapements will be in operative relation to the escapement operating devices without disturbing the operative relation between any magazine and the distributer.

10. In a typographic machine, the combination of a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines mounted there'- ment-operating devices, means for swinging said frame and thereby bringing any magament-operating devices, means for swinging said frame and thereby bringing any magazine thereon into position such that its escapements will be in operative relation to the 'escapement operating devices, and distributing mechanism comprising two parts,

one part mounted on said swinging frame and one part mounted on a fixture, both parts being adapted to be selectively operated b the matrices.

12. n a typographic machine, the combination of keyboard-controlled escapement-operating devices, a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines removably supported on said frame, each ma azinecarrying its own escapements, sai escapements and magazines being so arranged substantially as shown that by the swinging of said frame the escapements of any magazine may be brought into operative relation to said escapement operating devices, and distributing mechanism mounted on said swinging frame, said distributing mechanism being adapted for selective operation by the matrices.

13.,In a typographic machine, the combination with a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of magazines carried thereby located one behind another and extending crosswise of the machine, and distributing mechanism mounted on said swinging frame and comprising at its upper end as many channels as there are channels in each magazine, means for subdividing said channels from the top to the bottom of said distributer so as to form at the lower end thereof as many channels as there areernagazine channels in all the magazines, which channels are respectively located over said magazine channels, gates in said sub-divided distributer channels, and means operable by the matrices for causing such selective movement of said gates that they will guide a matrix introduced into the upper end of any of said channels into the proper channel of the magazine in which it belongs.

14. In a typographic machine, the combination of a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines carried thereby, a magazine distributer mounted on said swinging frame, which magazine distributer has at its upper end as many channels as there are character channels in each magazine, partitions which subdivide said channels and produce out of each channel as many branches as there are magazines, gates in said channels to direct a matrix delivered into the upper end of any channel into any of the branches thereof, and means for segregating matrices according to the channfl and delivering them into the upper ends of said magazine distributing channels, and means adapted to be selectively operated by the matrices for moving said gates into positions such that they will direct the matrices into the particular magazines in which they belong.

15. In a typographic machine, the combination of a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of magazines carried thereby located one behind another, a single distributer comprising (1) a fixed part which includes a matrix receiving throat having below and in communication therewith repeatedly subdivided lateral diverging channels, and (2) a movable part which is mounted on said swinging frame, which movable part of the distributer includes at its upper end as many matrix receiving throats as there are channels at the lower end of the fixed distributer, which throats are located directly beneath said channels, the channels of the movable distributer from thethroat downward being subdivided to form forwardly and backwardly diverging channels from the throat downward, the lower ends of the so formed channels being located directly over the corresponding channels of the several magazines, and gates in both the fixed and movable systems of distributer channels.

16. In a typographic machine, the combination of a pivoted swinging frame, a plurality of magazines carried. thereby located one behind another, a single distributer comprising (1) a fixed part which includes a matrix receiving throat having below and in communication therewith repeatedly subdivided lateral diverging channels, and (2) a movable part which is mounted on said swinging frame, which movable part of the distributer includes at its upper end as many matrix receiving throats as there are channels at the lower end of the fixed distributer, which throats are located directly beneath said channels, the channels of the movable distributer from the throat downward being subdivided to form forwardly and backwardly diverging channels from the throat downward, the lower ends of the so formed channels being located directly over the corresponding channels of the several magazines, gates in both the fixed and movable systems of distributer channels, and means whereby a single testing of any matrix will cause the movement of all of the gates which require movement to guide said matrix from the upper fixed receiving throat into the particular channel of the magazine in which it belongs.

17. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines mounted thereon, and magazine distinguishing mechanism mounted on said swinging frame and adapted to be selectively operated by the matrices, which mechanism includes at its upper end as many matrix receiving throats as there are channels in each magazine, and means for segregating the matrices according to the channels in which they belong and delivering them into the proper receiving throats of the magazine distinguishing mechanism.

18. In a typographic machine, the combination of aswinging frame, a fixture above the same, a plurality of matrix magazines mounted in the lower end of said frame, magazine distributing mechanism mounted in the upper end of said frame having at its upper end as many open matrix receiving throats as there are channels in each magazine, channel distributing mechanism mounted on said fixture and having at its lower end as many channels as there are channels in each magazine,which distributing channels lie directly over the throats of the magazine distributing mechanism, the adj acent ends of said fixed and movable channels being arranged substantially in the same horizontal plane as the axis of said swinging frame, and gates in the magazine distributing channels adapted to be selectively operated by the matrices.

19. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines mounted thereon and magazine distributing mechanism mounted in the'upper end of said frame, said magazine distributing mechanism comprising a housing with front and rear walls which are suitably separated at their upper ends and which diverge from said upper ends downward, approximately vertical walls in said housing extending transversely from one end thereof to the other, a transversely extended rock shaft mounted at the upper end of each of said vertical walls forwardly and backwardly extended partitions within said housing, and gates secured to said rock shafts between said last named partitions.

20. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines carried thereby, and magazine distributing mechanism mounted in the upper ends of said frame,said magazine distributing mechanism comprising a housing with front and rear walls which are suitably separated at their upper ends and which diverge from said upper ends downward, vertical partitions within said housing extending between the front and rear walls thereof, horizontal rock shafts which extend transversely across said housmg and through said vertical partitions, and gates fixed to said rock shafts between said vertical partitions, and means adapted to be selectively operated by the. matrices for rocking said rock shafts in one direction or the other as required.

21. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines carried thereby, and magazine distributing mechanism mountedun the upper end of said frame, said magazine distributing mechanism comprising a housing with front and rear walls which are suitably separated at their upper ends and which diverge from said upper ends downward, vertical partitions within said housing extending between the front and rear walls thereof, horizontal rock shafts which extend transversely through said vertical partitions and from one end of the housing out through the other end thereof, and gates fixed to said rock shafts between said vertical partitions, and means which are caused to operate selectively by the presentation of any matrix thereto for causing the rocking of said rock shafts in one direction or the other as may be required.

22. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines carried thereby, and magazine distributing mechanism mounted in the upper end of said frame, said magazine distributing mechanism comprising a housing with front and rear walls which are suitably separated at their upper ends and which diverge from said upper ends downward, vertical partitions within said housing extending between the front and rear walls thereof, horizontal rock shafts which extend transversely across said housing and through said vertical partitions, gates fixed to said rock shafts between said vertical partitions, each of said rock shafts extend- 1 ing out of the housing at one end thereof, means which are caused to operate selectively by the presentation of any matrix thereto for causing the rocking of said rock shafts in one direction or the other as may be required, and means for segregating the matrices according to the channels in which they belong and delivering them into the upper end of the said housing between the proper vertical partitions therein.

23. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, suspended from a horizontal transverse axis, a plurality of matrix magazines removably supported on said frame, one behind another, magazine distributing mechanism mounted on the upper end of said swinging frame and havmg at its upper end as many matrix receiving throats as there are channels in each magazine, and having at its lower end as many channels as there are channels in each magazine times the number of magazines, which channels are arranged to discharge guiding gates within said ma azine distributing channels, channel istributing mechanism located above the swinging frame and adapted to discharge matrices which have been segregated according to the channels in which they belong into the proper throats of the magazine distributing mechanism, and means controlled by the several matrices for operating the gates in the magazine distributer to direct the matrices after they are delivered into said receiving throats into the correspond ing channel of the particular magazine in which they belong.

24. In a typographic machine, the combination of a swinging frame, a plurality of matrix magazines carried thereby, magazine distributing mechanism mounted in the upper end of said frame, said magazine distributing mechanism comprising a housing with front and rear Walls which are suitably separated at their upper end and which diverge from said upper ends downward, approximately vertical walls in said housing extending transversely from one end thereof to the other, which walls are vertically grooved, vertical partitions extending forward and backward between the front and rear walls of said housing and having edges which engage in the grooves in the transversel extending walls, rock shafts which exten transversely across said housin at the upper end of t e transversely exten ing walls, and gates fixed to said rock shafts between the vertical partitions which extend forward and backward.

25. Iln a multiple magazine typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines, and a distributer having two parts, viz., an upper part which comprises repeatedly, subdivided laterally diverging channels all lying in one substantially vertical plane, an a lower part comprising a plurality of subc vided diverging channels, each set of the lower channels lying in a substantially vertical plane at right angles to the plane in which the channels of the upper part of the distributer lie.

26. In a multiple magazine typographic machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines and a distributer having two parts, viz., an upper part which comprises repeatedly subdivided laterally diverging channels, all lying in one substantially vertical plane, and a lower part comprising a plurality of subdivided diverging channels,

each set of the'lower channels lying in a substantially vertical plane at right angles to the plane in which the channels'of the upper part of the distributer, lie, gates in the channels of both parts of the distributer, and means adapted to be selectively and simultaneously operated by each matrix for so moving such gates as require movement to Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

